3596 Rocket Robotics - Labview Code Release

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Team 3596 Rocket Robotics is releasing their 2015 Elevator Bot ("Hug Bot") Labview code. This is the first year that we used Labview, previous years were in Java. We switched to Labview to focus more on understanding the building blocks of programming, than just putting code in a robot and constantly changing it to get performance. We are finding for us that visual coding is easier for the students to understand, than copying code from a book and not understanding how it works.

As this was our first year with the code, some of the code may not function as intended. Our autonomous code was not used and was not fully tested. We intend to work further with this code in the coming years as the challenge allows.

Lets all have a fun and safe 2016 competition!

EDIT: I should clarify that we lost our Java mentor in 2013, and lost our only Java student programmer in 2014 season due to graduation. At that time, we decided to switch to Labview for the 2015 season.

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Team 3596 Rocket Robotics is releasing their Labview code for our 2016 robot for the Stronghold challenge. Our robot did well at the Wisconsin Regional, ranking 16th overall. We enjoyed the challenge and look forward to the 2017 SteamWorks challenge.

Our robot was a catapult shooter with a unique drivetrain. The drivetrain used 4 pneumatic tires, and two hard rubber wheels in the center. The pneumatic tires were attached to movable arms that would raise and lower the robot with pneumatic cylinders. When the robot was raised, it would go over the defenses easily. When the robot was lowered, it was a typical West Coast drivetrain, and maneuvered easily. This was the first year that we got a vision program to work, and was pretty accurate.

The Labview code is available at our Github repository: https://github.com/ProgrammingTeam/2...view-Code-3569